4 false statements: {Ans: 1) Idol of the Tribe 2) Idols of the Cave 3) Idols of the Marketplace 4) Idols of the Theatre}3) Idols of the Marketplace {Ans: ~false beliefs that arise from language ~What Bacon is saying is that language is imprecise. We know the world imperfectly through language. ~Language doesn't give us an accurate description of the world. -try to reduce scientific laws to mathematics (formulas, equations, etc.)}Inductive reasoning {Ans: When you reason inductively, you reason from *specific* pieces of evidence *to general* conclusions. (3 oranges out of 10 are bad-reason they are all bad)}2) Idols of the Cave {Ans: ~false beliefs that may arise out of the way I was raised or what my personal experience with the world has been ~The way I was raised has shaped my way of looking at things;}Deductive reasoning {Ans: deductively is reasoning from *general statements to specific* conclusions ~in this case, general statements about the time of year, the place that these oranges are coming from, the weather conditions, and so on.}seventeenth century {Ans: The seventeenth century is sometimes called "a century of genius." ~This was the century of Milton and Galileo, Cervantes